Study on Dynamics and Constraints of the Employment in the Serbian SMEs During a Crisis/ Istraživanje Dinamike I Ograničavajućih Faktora Zaposlenosti U Malim I Srednjim Preduzećima U Republici Srbiji U Uslovima Krize

• Authors: Biljana Predić , Suzana Stefanović , Danijela Stošić
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Small and medium sized-enterprises (SMEs) are often seen as a sector important for job creation. About 2/3 of the overall employment is provided by this sector, both in the EU and in the Republic of Serbia. There is evidence that SMEs are responsible for the most part of the net employment growth. The SMEs sector in Serbia is identified as sector which can absorb a part of the unemployment generated by the large scale enterprises’ (LSEs) restructuring and privatization. Today, the unemployment rate in Serbia is high above the average unemployment rate in the EU. The question is whether the SMEs sector can absorb that unemployment, or is this sector more influenced by the crisis, relative to the LSEs. The aim of this paper is to examine the employment contribution of the SMEs in the Republic of Serbia. Furthermore, the paper will deal with the impact of the crisis on the SMEs’ employment, efficiency and their investment activities. The problems that are identified by SMEs, and that lead to rising unemployment in this sector over the past few years will be considered and analyzed.

Mala i srednja preduzeća (MSP) se često vide kao sektor bitan za kreiranje novih radnih mesta. Ovaj sektor privrede obezbeđuje oko 2/3 svih radnih mesta, kako u Republici Srbiji, tako i u EU. Postoje empirijski dokazi da su mala i srednja preduzeća zaslužna za najveći deo rasta neto zaposlenosti. U Republici Srbiji se ova preduzeća vide kao preduzeća koja mogu da apsorbuju deo nezaposlenosti koja se restrukturiranjem i privatizacijom generiše u sektoru velikih preduzeća. Danas je stopa nezaposlenosti u Srbiji značajno veća od prosečne stope nezaposlenosti na nivou EU. Pitanje je da li sektor MSP može da apsorbuje ovu nezaposlenost, ili su ova preduzeća u većoj meri pogođena krizom, relativno prema velikim preduzećima. Rad ima za cilj da ispita doprinos malih i srednjih preduzeća zaposlenosti u Republici Srbiji. Takođe, u radu se istražuje uticaj krize na zaposlenost u ovom sektoru, na efikasnost i na nivo investicionih aktivnosti malih i srednjih preduzeća. Osnovni problemi za vlasnike malih i srednjih preduzeća koji vode rastućoj nezaposlenosti u ovom sektoru biće razmotreni i analizirani.

Keywords

EN

SMEs; employment; efficiency; investments; crisis; MSP; zaposlenost; efikasnost; investicije; kriza

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Economic Themes
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 33-50

Dates

published

2015-03-01

received

2013-10-18

accepted

2014-02-20

online

2015-03-13

Contributors

author

Biljana Predić

• University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Serbia

author

Suzana Stefanović

• University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Serbia

author

Danijela Stošić

• University of Niš, Faculty of Economics, Serbia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ethemes-2014-0003